The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-30
ARE EYBABES0R APES?
AN AFRICAN NURSE HIRED FOR
TWO LITTLE AFRICANS.

Their Sister, is Dead-They are Fres b
from Eaggard's Wonderful Africa
If They're Human, They are Wards
of the Court or Pauper Immigrants
or Chattel Slaves.
From the New York sun
The latest arrivals in New York from the
heart of the Dark Continent are He and 1t.
There was She, and She was the sister of He
and 1t. But She died SO soon after arriving
in England that she did not even have the
pleasure of meeting Mr.. Haggard SO He
and 1t W. left sisterless orphans in a
strange laui But Mr. Herman Reiche,
who was in London at the time, bought He
and 1t of the trader who brought them from
Africa, and he has just got them to his
place of business at 95 Park row, where he
has large collection of everything odd in
the animal line, but nothing in any remote
degree so odd as the brothers He and It.
Mr.. Reiohe spurns the idea that He and
1t are monkeys or gorillas, or ANYTHING in
the ape line, but insists, although he bought
them for cash on English soil, that they are
human beings, and he tells curious story
about them, which he says he believes.
There is in Europe, Mr.. Reiche says,
goes every winter into the heart of Africa
starting from Cape Town and going as far
as he can by rail, and then pushing in the
great oxen-drawn wagons i'll which Mr.
Haggard's heroes trek part way to many
curious places On these journeys he col
lects ivory, gold dust, and liquid novi,
especially rare animals, which he buys of
the natives and brings back to sell at a
profit.
Last winter he went far up the Zambesi
river, and when away beyond Victoria
Falls, at point where white men do not
reach once i'll ten years, he fell in with
tribe of natives who treated him kindly
He bought good deal of ivory, gold and
other trihes in exchange for suspender
buckles, jewsharps, and similar valuables
Among this tribe he found He, She and 1t
living an unhappy life with the prejudice
of the community against them. Their
mother $50 the trader said the natives told
HIM was member of the tribe. She was
lnysteriously stolen away, and after being
absent several years suddenly made her
appearance, carrying He and 1t in her
arms, while She came limping along behind.
The mother was so worn out with making
long journey throu "A the wilderness that
she died, and was alY able to tell before
she expired that she hal been the prisoner
of strange people. and that He, She and
1t were her offspring. The tribe did not
take kindly to the orphans, and they were
sadly neglected, SO that the traveller had
little trouble in purchasing the entire
family, paying two tomato cans down on
the spot. The trader took the orphans to
London, where Mr.. Reiche, who had pur-
chased many curious things of him, bought
the orphans too.
Mr.. Reiche came home on the Servia
few days ago. He wanted to bring He and
1t along with him, bat he could not get a
r.. L. Ia
two men in his employ who were going to
bring over a number of animals for him,
and they took the two strangers with them
to Hamburg, where they embarked -. the
Wieland and arrived in this city last week.
On the way over the queer little beings
slept every night with the men in their
berths, and conducted themselves with a
gentleness and propriety which won every
bodys heart.
They are only about year old, and are
less than three feet high when they stand
erect Their sister She, who died in Lon
don, was years old, and was much larger
They are of slaty gray color, covered
sparsely with thin reddish hair, their
faces, though, being quite bare, with the
exception OF a sparse growth OF Galway
whiskers on their infantile cheeks. They
are pot-bellied like little Bushmen. TEey
have tapering fingers and polished finger
nails, short, fiat thumbs, long arms and no
tails Their heads are rather Caucasian
than African, and the most remarkable fea-
ture about them is their large, gentle,
and intelligent brown eyes. They are
of an afectionate disposition, and when
taken from their cage they will set content
edly on Mr.. Reiche's knees with their arms
thrown about his neck. They whimper and
cry and cling to him when he puts them
back III their cage, and when he leaves the
room they wall and cry after him like two
veritable children. He mot Mr. Reiche) is
somewhat larger than 1t, and 1t has way
of going and sitting down on his brothers
knee and throwing his arm about his neck,
while He supports 1t with his arm as an
other would a child.
They require so much more tender care
than the employees about the store are able
to give them that Mr.. Reiche had this adj
vertisement put in yesterdays Sun:
WANTED, a good, reliable colored woman,
w experienced in the care and bringing up
of babies, as nurse for, two wild children from
Africa; must be tidy, clean, ana of Kind DISPOSE
ton. CHAS REICHE & BRO, Is Park row.
He (Mr Reiche) was not long without an
applicant, and engaged a kind-hearted col
ored woman as nurse to look after the
little waits. They took much more kindly
to her at first than she did to them, but
after the first embarrassment of the intro
duction was over she held them both in her
arms ana Uney clunE alIecLlOnaUeIy ABOUT nef
neck. They will have room to themselves
in the upper part of the store, and there
they will have bed such as other people
have, and the nurse will tuck them up III it
comfortably and see them asleep before she
leaves them at night. One fine day she will
take them in her arms and carry them out
for an airing, but they have got to have an
interview with tailor first, the airiness of
the Central African costume not being
adapted either to the climate or the social
prejudices of New York
He is not only the larger of the two, but
the most vivacious and frivolous. He likes
to hang head downward by his toes while 1t
wraps himself up in wooden blanket and
watches He out of his round solemn
eyes in a mildly reproachful way 1t
is wholly lacking in the delicate sense Of
humor which is one of He's strong social
points. They are to have little table and
chairs to match in a few days, and it is
thought this will have tendency to repress
He's unconventional genialitv at meals. He
rather likes to stand on his head, for IN
stance, while he eats cold potato, but this
he will get over for he is thoroughly
tractable, and will take his seat at table
and handle his knife and fork as other peo-
pie do.
1t will be observed that if the children
are human an interesting complication
arises under the laws forbidding the i'm
portation of human chattels into this coun-
uy, and that Com Gerry's Children's So